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Due to the size and nature of the event, it is important that we close roads at certain times of the weekend for the safety of our performers and attendees. You can find the road closure times and information below.

Roads closed 6pm Friday 9 June to 5pm Sunday 11 June: East Borough, The Square, High Street, Church Street, West Row, Corn Market and Cook Row.

Roads closed 1pm to 3:30pm Saturday 10 June: Park Lane and East Street for the procession.

Folk musicians including Jim Causley, Jackie Oates and Bryony Griffith will be joining us at the festival for the Southern Harvest book launch.

Tickets for the special event are just £8, which will be available on the day or £20 in advance for a Sunday Pass which will also include entry to see the Sam Kelly Trio, Moore Moss Rutter, Ninebarrow, Sunjay, Mitchell & Vincent and Aron Radford.

For one year only, the organisers of Wimborne Minster Folk Festival take on running Wimborne Buskers Bash. The previous organisers are only "taking a year off", so don't fret, they'll be back.

The festival committee have stepped up to the task of organising the one day busking event, that uses locations around the town to allow musicians to gain your vote, by using a token system that will get them through to the final - held on Wimborne Square the same evening.

We are looking for vibrant people to be part of the festival team who are prepared to work in shifts over the three day festival.

Every year, the festival relies on volunteer stewards to help make the festival happen, we really couldn't do it without you! In exchange for your time, you will get festival tickets to Wimborne Minster Folk Festival concerts, comedy and ceilidhs and also tickets to Party In The Paddock, plus free parking, camping and souvenir programme.

Introducing a night of Comedy to this year's folk festival comes with great pleasure, and we are thrilled to welcome Welsh comedian Noel James. Joining Noel is resident comic-folk-band of the festival, Polly Morris, who will take you on a whirlwind trip of supermarket shopping and the perils of e-mail.